Background: Hospital medicine is the fastest growing subspecialty within internal medicine, growing from 10,000 hospitalists in 2002 to over 50,000 in 2016. Despite this growth, there remain relatively few hospitalists who are clinician investigators. We sought to quantify the number of clinician investigators, their dedicated time for research at major United States academic medical centers, […]

Background: High levels of interprofessional collaboration and communication have been shown to lead to better patient safety outcomes, improved patients’ satisfaction and quality of care, as well as higher job satisfaction for doctors and nurses alike. Yet, challenges to nurse-doctor collaborations exist. One way of improving interprofessional collaboration may be through structured co-teaching by nurses […]

Background: Painful diagnostic or therapeutic procedures are commonly performed in the emergency department (ED). Previous investigations indicate that practitioners frequently do not provide adequate anesthesia for painful medical procedures. Patients indicate they would like to receive local anesthesia prior to a painful procedure, but often it is not offered. Topical anesthetics have been recommended as […]

Background: Staffing of inpatient medicine services with Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), including physician assistants and nurse practitioners, is becoming increasingly common at academic medical centers across the United States. The various roles filled by APPs have not been well-described in the literature. The purpose of this study is to better characterize how APPs are utilized […]

Case Presentation: A 64‐year‐old female patient with a significant medical history of ovarian cancer in remission treated with surgery 20 years ago presented with a 5‐day history of shortness of breath and right‐sided chest pain. She referred that these symptoms were progressively getting worse, describing orthopnea and frequent urination. She also described that her urine […]

Background: Regionalization of a provider team’s patients within dedicated nursing units has been shown to allow for improved efficiency and interdisciplinary collaboration. However, the creation of full regionalization is not feasible or appropriate for many medical centers given resource limitations. We hypothesized that we could achieve a significant increase in patient regionalization by modifying admitting […]